Am 12/14/2011 11:17, schrieb Leonardo Kim: > Branch names can contain slashes, so we can use 'development/foo' as a > branch name. If I choose 'development' as a branch name, it doesn't > work. There is a directory named development at '.git/refs/heads' > directory. So we cannot create a file named development for > 'refs/heads/development'. > > An error message may occurs like below. Unfortunately, It is not of help to me. > 'error: 'refs/heads/development/foo' exists; cannot create > 'refs/heads/development'. > > I think that dealing with a file system and an error message above is > not sufficient for a novice like me. I hope that it should be > improved. Sorry, I don't see anything in the error message that makes a connection between refs and a file system; it only says "foo/bar exists; cannot create foo". I really don't see how this can be improved to avoid confusion. -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html